The Premier League is currently in limbo. Following the lockdown from COVID-19, the season is on hiatus and there appears no current plan of action on when and how to resume.
Gary Williams is entirely serious when he says he has a full plan of action to get the Premier League back playing. The only thing is he wants them to come to Australia to finish the 2019/20 season.
With Australia one of the least affected countries in the world by the Coronavirus pandemic, Williams feels it is the ideal venue.
Australia is usually visited by at least a couple of the Premier League’s top sides every summer as part of their promotional preseason tours.
Only last summer Manchester United was in Perth for a friendly game, while the year before that saw Chelsea travel there too.
Speaking to ABC Grandstand, he feels his home nation has everything to help out.
He said:
“We’ve got the venues, we’ve got the weather and we are in control of the coronavirus at the moment.”
“You would need four facilities and the timing is absolutely brilliant, because we could kick off over here at 6 pm, 8 pm, and 10 pm.”
“10 pm kick-off here would be 3 pm in the afternoon there and we’d also have coverage worldwide all through Asia and America.”
“Timing wise this is the ideal place and also health and safety wise and facility wise, it’s the ideal place, Perth.”
He insists the plan is perfect.
Williams continued:
“The players would have to be in isolation for two weeks traveling to Australia from the UK.”
“After the two weeks, all the games would be televised with no crowds.”
“We’d be looking at Optus Stadium, the WACA, and probably HBF Arena. They could use local state league clubs to do the training.”
